After an interlude of reading the Greek New Testament books of the gospel according to John, and the acts of the apostles, I have resumed reading the Apology of Socrates. I gave up the first effort, because the work was too hard. Plato is going better now. I believe reading a hundred pages or so of relatively easy Greek would help anybody overwhelmed by Plato. The NT is a good choice because the sentences are not too complicated. Besides this, for me, there was some familiarity with the English Bible. Then there is the fact that a NT lexicon gives an entry for every single word variation. You need not have the forms perfectly memorized. Moreover, looking up every unknown word provides much form study.
I frequently used the Perseus presentation of the NT books, which gives the Vulgate Latin translation for comparison. Comparison with the Vulgate was often very helpful in making out a puzzling Greek sentence. For example, it seemed to me that Jerome, when he could do it, translated Greek participles into Latin participles.
Although I am a church-going man, I did not read with devotional intention. Instead, I put on my history-guy hat, and read as I’d read other documents containing declarations about the past. I skimmed some elementary commentaries on matters of date of composition, authorship, and so on. I assumed the NT books were written by historical persons, using human-produced sources available to them.
So, now I’m back to Plato. Here is what I have on my desk. The printed student commentaries of both Steadman and Helm, a paper form of Liddell & Scott abridged, Morwood’s Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek. Now and then I consult Smyth, but much less often than Morwood. I have the Atticos app on my Ipad Mini. This app has been very helpful. See here: https://attikos.org/
I also use my desktop computer, but that requires me to change chairs, because the books already mentioned take up so much space on my physical tabletop. So, I have two different little study worlds on the same big table: the world of my computer, and the world of my physical books and my notebook. Nine-tenths of the time I work with the physical books. The most important reason for this is that I write notes by hand, systematically in spiral bound notebooks. Usually I write down the sentence, one word after the other until I see a difficult word. I give that word a separate line, and do the necessary study, and make notes on that. This is not so much for later restudy, but rather because I believe handwriting notes helps one remember, even if you never see the note again.